Wise Gal Tarot: Cool Ways to Read Your Fortune

Middle-grade girls have long been drawn to fortune-telling games, and Wise Gal Tarot introduces tarot and other forms of divination in a playful, thoughtful fashion. The authors combine careful research, a friendly tone, and a fresh, hip design style to create the ultimate smart girl's guide to fortune-telling. Subjects include: tarot, palmistry, dowsing, tasseography (predicting the future through the patterns of tea leaves), the Chinese zodiac, and reading fortunes from campfires (pyromancy), books (bibliomancy), and candle wax (ceromancy). Also included is a full-color deck of 78 tarot cards designed especially for girls.

Wise Gal Tarot: Amazing Ways to Read Your Fortune!

Gottlieb, Dale

Burns, Jane

Children's Books

Crown Books for Young Readers

Join Slimy on a backyard journey. A perfectly satisfying picture story for toddlers and preschoolers! Join Slimy Snail on an adventure that takes him around the backyard and brings him face-to-face with all sorts of obstacles: Up a hill (very steep!). Over a bridge (very high!). Down a slope (very slippery!). Here's a snail's-eye view of the backyard and a picture story that introduces the youngest readers to simple directional concepts--and ends with a clever visual surprise!

Snail Trail

Brown, Ruth

Animals

Me And The Measure Of Things

The energetic narrator of Me Counting Time and Me on the Map is back, this time introducing young readers to the units of measure. What’s the difference between a cup and an ounce? What gets measured in bushels and when do you use a scale? Easy-to-understand text and playful corresponding illustrations teach children the differences between wet and dry measurements, weight, size, and length. And all information is conveyed in a unique kid’s-eye perspective, using everyday objects and situations. Me and the Measure of Things makes measurement fun–and comprehensible!

Me and the Measure of Things

Sweeney, Joan

Me and My Senses

The lovable ‘Me’ from Me on the Map is back in her seventh book, this time introducing young readers to the five senses. What do you smell with? How can you see? What’s that you hear? Me and My Senses can show you! Full of the same easy-to-understand text and bright corresponding illustrations readers have come to expect, Me and My Senses introduces children to the five senses and teaches the basics of how they work. Me and My Senses helps the whole world make a whole lot more sense!

Samuel Cody grew up on the western frontier, a true American cowboy. With nerves of steel and dauntless courage, he would be one of the first to cross another frontier: the frontier of flight. As a young boy Samuel Cody was fascinated with kites. Living in England years later, Cody created the first kites strong and big enough to carry a man high into the air. Like the Wrights and other early aviators, Cody was determined to build an airplane. He faced not only the technological hurdles of his day, but the apathy of the British military. Against these obstacles, Cody used his ingenuity, his skill, and a great deal of daring to create England’s first airplane in 1908. His is an inspirational story of American willpower and determination.

Rider in the Sky: How an American Cowboy Built England's First Airplane

Weitzman, David

Hulls, John R.

Biographies

Model T: How Henry Ford Built a Legend

Somehow Henry Ford knew what Americans were hankering for: “Everybody wants to be someplace he ain’t. As soon as he gets there, he wants to go right back.” And so, he pioneered the Model T–the first affordable car for the masses. David Weitzman has meticulously documented the development of the assembly line and the many innovations and adaptations Ford put to use in making his famous Tin Lizzy. When the Ford plant first opened, the crew could make 18,000 cars a year at a cost of $950 each. In just ten years, they had refined the process enough so that they could build one million cars in a year and the price had come down to about $350. Filled with detailed black-and-white drawings, helpful text and captions, and fascinating quotes from Ford employees, this elegant book gives young readers a look at a mechanical genius in action.

33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A.

Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more, this latest addition to the 33 Things series provides an engaging, inspiring, informative look at the role women have played in shaping American history.

Teen & Young Adult

Social Issues

Exploring Our Solar System

Five billion years ago, a starship passing through our region of space would not have slowed down for a second look. There was nothing to see. No Earth, no sun, no solar system. Nothing but a huge tenuous cloud of gas. Now, as the result of billions of years of evolution, and centuries of scientific research, we can chart our way through the solar system . . . with Sally Ride as our navigator. Starting from the sun and working outward, Sally Ride and Tam O’Shaughnessy take readers on a tour of the nine planets and explain the formation, current conditions, and possibility of life on each. Filled with crisp, full-color photographs and lucid prose, this comprehensive volume untangles the complexities of space and allows readers to feel like masters of the universe.

Ride, Sally

Tam O'Shaughnessy

Science, Nature & How It Works

The next time you see a rat you should give it a round of applause. Consider the facts: rats can gnaw through lead, wriggle through a hole the size of a quarter, and survive high doses of nuclear radiation. Rats have also managed to exploit us humans for all we’re worth–we’ve unintentionally provided them with food, shelter, and transportation. And contrary to popular belief, rats are quite clean. Some people keep them as pets. Some even worship them. Armed with wit and scientific fact, award-winning natural history writer Richard Conniff gleefully delves into the fascinating and impressive world of the rat–one of the most successful animals on earth.

Rats! The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Conniff, Richard

First to Fly: How Wilbur and Orville Wright Invented the Airplane

It started with a toy. As boys, Wilbur and Orville Wright loved making their helicopter fly. As adults, the brothers made their living taking things apart and putting them together again: printing presses, bicycles, planes. . . . Through trial and error, these two boys from Dayton, Ohio, built the plane that would change the world forever. With an inspiring text, original paintings, period photographs, and detailed diagrams, First to Fly recreates the story of the Wright Brothers, from their earliest challenges to their final triumph.

David, Craig

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